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Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in red costume with a sword, beside plum blossoms and a lattice window.

Onoe Kikugorō I as Izumi no Saburō in the Play Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise

1769

Woodblock print of a woman in a pale kimono holding a yellow parasol beside a willow tree, with grass at her feet.

Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden (from the series Ichimura Theater)

1770

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a plaid hakama and patterned kimono, arm raised, with swords at his waist.

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Umeo-maru in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Se…

c. 1768

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a striped kimono holding a sword and lantern beside straw bundles and flowering plants.

The First Ichikawa Komazo (who in 1772 became the fourth Matsumoto Koshiro) in the Role of Yoemon

1770

Woman in patterned kimono holding a pipe before a red lattice, with onlookers peering through, in a Japanese woodblock print.

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo II in the Role of the Oiran Hatsuito of Yamashiro-ya

ca. 1770

Woman in a floral kimono leaning on a veranda beside a green screen, with a spotted cat at her feet, Japanese woodblock print

The Third Princess (Onna San no Miya)

ca. 1771

Woodblock print of a figure in a patterned kimono beside a striped screen and bamboo, by Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a Female Role

c. 1769

Woodblock print of a muscular kabuki actor in wrestler costume with a maple-leaf robe and sword, c. 1770.

Actor Sakata Hongoro II as a Wrestler in a Play

ca. 1770

Woodblock print of two elegantly dressed figures under a parasol on a wooden veranda, one holding a sword.

Segawa Kikunojo II as a Girl and Ichikawa Tomiyeimon?

ca. 1770

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red kimono holding a red monkey mask, with a sword at his waist.

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I as a Man Holding a Monkey Mask

1764-71

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with red face paint holding a sword before bamboo, by Ippitsusai Bunchō, ca. 1769.

The Actor Otani Hiroji III, Armed with a Sword

ca. 1769

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in a red cape with white crests and a blossom-patterned kimono, beside a screen.

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Woman Wearing a Red Cape

ca. 1772

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono and red robe, holding a sword, with iris-decorated hakama.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro 3rd in an Unidentified Role

ca. 1769

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a female role, wearing a floral kimono beside a shoji screen.

The Actor Arashi Hinaji in a Female Role

ca. 1770

Woodblock print of a performer in a fox-head hood and patterned kimono beneath a blossoming cherry tree.

A Fox Dance from the Drama The Thousand Cherry Trees

Japanese woodblock print of a young man in a plum-blossom kimono holding a toy horse beneath a flowering plum branch.

Danjuro as a Youth with a Toy Horse under Plum Blossoms

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a sweet cake peddler holding a fan and paper slip beside a lattice screen.

Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Uiro-uri (Peddler of Sweet Cakes Called Uiro)

ca. 1770

Woodblock print of a standing man in a striped kimono beside a lantern, teapot and lacquered box, in a wooden interior.

Ichikawa Komazo I

ca. 1769

Woman in patterned kimono holding a striped umbrella in falling snow beside a wooden railing and bamboo fence.

The Actor Nakamura Kiyozo

ca. 1769

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a fan beside flowering shrubs and bundled straw.

Ichikawa Yaozō II

ca. 1772

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a woman in patterned kimono, holding a cloth, beside a pine tree and green curtain.

Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the Role of Kiyohime in Musume Dōjōji (the Girl of Dōjōji)

ca. 1771

Woodblock print of two women in kimono walking under a yellow parasol through falling snow, one holding a patterned bundle.

The Oiran Chōzan of Chōjiya, from the series Love Letters

ca. 1769

Woodblock print of a man in a black and cream kimono carrying a pole, looking up at a blossoming tree with a rope and tags.

The Actor Yamashita Kyonosuke in the Role of Tamarimaru

ca. 1769

Woodblock print of a man in a yellow robe holding a conical hat and a speckled fish beneath willow branches.

Arashi Otohachi I

ca. 1790

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in a patterned kimono beside a snowy bamboo grove and wooden fence.

Onoe Kikugorō as Tonase, from Kanadehon Chūshingura (Kanadehon Chūshingura, Shosei Onoe Kikugorō no Tonase)

1773

Woodblock print of an actor in a fox costume beneath a blossoming cherry tree with falling petals and bamboo.

An Actor in the Fox Dance from the Drama, "The Thousand Cherry Trees"

1723-1792

Woodblock print of a woman in a white kimono beside a lantern, a potted pine and chrysanthemums, and a latticed window.

Handayu, An Actor in a Female Role

1723-1792

Japanese woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono walking before a girl carrying a doll, with a flowering branch.

A Courtesan Followed by a Girl Attendant Carrying a Doll

1723-1792

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a green robe with a bow, arrows and a hawk overhead, with calligraphy at upper right.

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I as Yorimasa

1770

Two kabuki actors in patterned kimono share an oil-paper parasol on a grassy mound in a Japanese woodblock print.

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Chunagon Yukihira (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni…

c. 1771

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a striped parasol and sword beside a stone lantern, c. 1770.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kikuchi Hyogo Narikage in the Play Katakiuchi Chuko Kagami (Vendetta: A Model of L…

c. 1770

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors, one seated with a sword and one standing with a bird beside a cherry tree and stone wal

The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Seigen (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Shimizu Tonoinosuke Kiyoharu (left), in th…

c. 1769